catholic school parent councilS
Key School Advisory & Local Consultative Body
A school's CSPCs advise principals and, where appropriate, school boards on issues affecting the students and the operation of individual schools.
Their membership should include parents and guardians of students, the principal, a teacher, a student representative (secondary school councils), a non-teaching school staff member, school parish liaison, as well as members from the community at large. Parents and guardians must make up the majority of council members.
CSPCSs may advise the principal or the school board - through consultation by the locally-elected trustee or simply by connecting directly with them, if the trustee is not consulting parents - on:
- programs and strategies to improve student performance (this is mandated by the Education Act)
- school year calendar (to be honest, the TCDSB generally follows whatever the TDSB has already decided)
- codes of student behaviour, and Codes of Conduct for staff and trustees
- Multi-Year Strategic Plan (this is mandated by the Education Act)
- curriculum priorities
- School Climate - ensuring it's safe and welcoming for ALL students (this is mandated by the Education Act)
- safe arrival programs (elementary schools)
- communications to parents and communications to the community
- community use of the school, and community programs and services provided at the school through school-community partnerships
- school board policies that will affect the school
- selection of principals (though the regular develop of a local Principal Profile - the principal and local school superintendent should be assisting).
For more information and CSPC policy and by-laws visit the CSPC page on the TCDSB website.
Other Parent-Led TCDSB Organizations
Ontario Association of Parents in Catholic Education (OAPCE)
Ontario Association of Parents in Catholic Education (OAPCE)
Ontario Association of Parents in Catholic Education (OAPCE)
OAPCE Toronto - OAPCE is a parent volunter led chartiable organization whose mandate is to promote and protect publicly funded Catholic Education in Ontario. Every CSPC should have an OAPCE rep - the CSPC Chair is the default rep for their Catholic parent council if none is elected. Meetings take place monthly.
Catholic Parent Involvement Committee (CPIC)
Ontario Association of Parents in Catholic Education (OAPCE)
Ontario Association of Parents in Catholic Education (OAPCE)
TCDSB's CPIC is a provincially mandated and funded committee. The provincial mandate of the committee is to support student academic achievement by recommending ways to the Board to increase parent involvement. Parents in each ward elect their CPIC representatives.